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Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Wait But Why with Tim Urban

Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast

Travis Sherry

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Society & Culture:places & Travel

4.6890 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Wait But Why is one of my favorite places on the internet and today Tim Urban joins me today to talk about his writing, his process, and his travels.

Transcript

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I did the guy in the bear suit who's in this like tourist street and I basically

0:06.2

he's in this you know this Uzbek guy and so I basically was like look can I you know

0:11.2

do your job for the day you'll you'll get all the money still I just want to can I just like basically do your work

0:15.7

and he was like yeah sure if you want to and I was like yeah yeah I'll be at the bar

0:19.8

while you're in the bear suit. They're like, all right, yeah, exactly.

0:22.6

This is the final goal.

0:25.6

You're all the name of this.

0:27.0

The Extra Pack of Peanuts Travel Podcast, episode two seventy seven, despite being the world's 13th. So 277.77.

0:33.0

Despite being the world's 13th biggest country and having a land area of over 800,000

0:39.2

square miles, Greenland has no official roads. The only traffic jams you'll come across? Dog sleds.

0:47.0

I am fascinated by today's guest Tim Urban for a variety of reasons and he's done so many

0:57.5

neat things on his site Wait but Why a lot of which we're going to talk about in today's

1:01.5

episode but one of the coolest things he's ever done in my opinion

1:05.2

is his odd things in odd places trip

1:08.2

where he allowed his readers to pick the countries

1:10.7

that they wanted him to go to.

1:13.0

And that led to a trip that started in Russia,

1:16.1

then went to Japan, Nigeria, Iraq, and ended up in Greenland.

1:21.9

Now, I have never been fortunate enough to bump around the world to so many

1:25.1

disparate countries like Tim just did and to be honest I'm a little jealous that he

1:30.1

did get to do it but you better believe that if I ever do a trip like that, I'm just going to be bringing on a carry-on backpack, and that will be my Tortuga Outbreaker backpack. So if you're looking for the perfect travel carry-on size backpack one that can withstand even the craziest

1:45.9

trips like Tim went on go on over to a tautuga backpacks dot com and don't

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